Chief Technology Officer

**The opportunity**:
Fintech is full of ‘also ran’ businesses that never quite met their potential or could not execute against a vision of market domination or out-innovating their rivals. Or bogged down in compliance and slow-moving partners. This homegrown hero has dominated local and international markets with the advent of automation and data-driven decision-making to IPO and grow further. This team focuses on building relationships with their customers and wowing them with their Cx and speed to serve and go-to-market. The opportunity for an effective, contemporary tech exec to bring new vision and leadership to a business that has already brought to market more than $600M in transactions. Strong thinking is required to bolster the team, from app to Cloud delivery processes and uncover opportunities to marry market demands with tech advancements. This role will be able to understand the technology whilst building an effective team, catering to the changing needs of the product suite.

Work with the founders, engineering, product and design, and you'll have the chance to grow your career like no other time and be part of one of New Zealand's success stories that ain’t making donations or accounting software.

**Company profile**:
From challenger contrarian scrappy player, to a business model that has the banks and payments businesses looking over their shoulder. Not layby, bona fide Fintech. International growth. Experienced track-record execs and a growing audience who’ve demanded great Cx, and got it. The product suite includes a number of components: apps, data engine and ML, web platforms and integration advancements. This product portfolio offers opportunities for brand new thinking for new product prototypes.

**Tech Exec Leadership**:
The journey of growth and change for this business to IPO and successful maturity has been proud and ongoing work. Growth of the business and its product suite requires an executive leader role to define the milestones, empower the engineering leaders and peers, build greater cohesion within the teams and streamline delivery through predictable systems.

The role breaks down into four core components:
Technology strategy: dream and define a rallying vision, garner insights and knowledge to build confidence in marriage of product and engineering; commercial to technical

People leadership: growth and management of your new teams and leaders & their professional development

Delivery leadership: strategic thinking and grunt to better define predictable systems to meet milestones/achievable goals, orchestrate through your team leads and relationships with other parts of the business

Engineering leadership: Work with your key technology leaders and boffins, ensure that the commercial goals are met with the technology innovation and planning

**The fit**:
To be able to fulfill this role you will be driven by the opportunity to influence the direction of a product development business and its strategic technology and commercial roadmap. You’ll thrive in the challenge of growth and want to see the impact of your teams and products on customers.

You’ll celebrate the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of your team and grow them, igniting a sense of purpose for the company’s vision. Emerging from a technical business or background in an executive role for a technology vendor, you’ll be ready for a bigger role than you are in now. Growth and scaling of a software vendor in B2B or B2C products or similar product development sphere. You don’t need a Fintech background.

Reporting directly to the founder you'll marry people, technology and delivery leadership and want to create a culture of excitement and purpose within a new role in a new business.

**Ref: 13390**
- Julian Lambert Director
- 021 968 090